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IT Camps - 9th & 10th October, Cape Town
I will be delivering the following two IT Camp in Cape Town, on the 9th & 10th of October. The...
Date: 10/06/2014
IT Pro User Group / Community (K)Nights @ Microsoft Offices in Bryanston every 2nd Tuesday of each Month
Hello IT Pro community in South Africa. The Premier Field Engineering team has become involved in...
Date: 08/20/2014
IT Pro User Group – July 8th - Microsoft Exchange Server Services Operational Dependencies
Exchange Services or no Exchange Services. What’s the question again? In this session Matthys...
Date: 06/25/2014
IT Pro User Group meeting – June 10th – Deep dive into Group Policy, GPMC and AGPM
Group Policies are crucial for any Active Directory domain security. In this session, Paulo...
Date: 06/04/2014
IT Pro User Group meeting – May 13th - The Distributed File System Replication (DFSR)
The Distributed File System Replication (DFSR) service is a multi-master replication engine that is...
Date: 04/16/2014
IT Pro User Group meeting – April 8th – Upgrading Domain Controllers from Windows Sever 2003
As Windows Server 2003 rapidly approaches end-of-life, we find many enterprises struggling with the...
Date: 03/13/2014
SharePoint 2010 and 2013 PowerShell Back-up Script
I have been asked several times for a Farm backup script and I have been meaning to get to it, so...
Date: 02/27/2014
IT Pro User Group meeting – March 11th
Authentication 2.0 – The old, the bad and the future. Businesses typically only secure their...
Date: 02/26/2014
IT Pro User Group meeting – November 12th
With almost all of Microsoft Products having PowerShell capabilities, we would like to have a...
Date: 10/23/2013
Community Night – October 2013
Following our first Community night around the legal landscape in South Africa that IT is facing as...
Date: 09/20/2013
Community Night – September 2013
Over the last 12 months, I have delivered numerous events throughout South Africa, second to Windows...
Date: 08/14/2013
Community Night – August 2013
We are hoping to get the IT Professional community nights back off the ground again from August. The...
Date: 08/07/2013
IGNITE WEBCAST – Data Loss Prevention in Exchange 2013
Data loss/leak prevention solution is a system that is designed to detect potential data...
Date: 07/08/2013
IT Camps – Windows 8
We have recently announced our next wave of IT Camps in Johannesburg, Durban and Cape Town, with the...
Date: 05/23/2013
Best of MMS2013 @ TechEd Africa
BETTER TOGETHER - Best of MMS 2013 and TechEd Africa We are excited to announce that for 2013, Best...
Date: 04/09/2013
Special Announcement–The Microsoft System Center and Cloud OS Boot Camp 2013 is back!
The System Center and Cloud OS Boot Camp will provide you with the technical learning, insight and...
Date: 04/04/2013
TechEd Africa 2013
South Africa’s premier technology event for IT Professionals and Developers, TechEd Africa, will be...
Date: 03/20/2013
Community Night – March 2013
The March community night will take place on the 12th of March at the Microsoft Campus in Bryanston....
Date: 02/27/2013
Realising the value of an RKM.
Hi All, We recently completed, a RKM (Roles and Knowledge Management) engagement for one of our...
Date: 01/31/2013
MVA Series – Automation with System Center 2012 SP1 Orchestrator
In this second part of a two part blog post, previous one here, we will conclude the Service...
Date: 01/30/2013
MVA Series - Service Manager in System Center 2012 SP1
In this two part blog post, we will follow on from the previous post that focused on Configure &...
Date: 01/28/2013
Wave of training content following the System Center 2012 SP1 launch - MVA
If you attended any Microsoft event in 2012 that discussed System Center 2012 or Cloud, you no doubt...
Date: 01/21/2013
How to use Windows Server 2012 Essentials with more than 25 Users?
As you know Windows Server 2012 Essentials is primarily designed for small businesses that need...
Date: 01/13/2013
Customers go wild for MOF!
Microsoft PFE Operations Consultants love to talk about best practices, and lately we have had many...
Date: 12/11/2012
Download Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2012 for Free!
Do you want to consolidate Servers? In cases where no new Windows Server licenses are required or...
Date: 12/04/2012
Your New Office - SkyDrive Pro: The convenience of SkyDrive, the safety of enterprise security
If you like the convenience of SkyDrive but are worried about your corporate information being...
Date: 11/27/2012
What do you do with Windows Server 2012 Essentials when you grow beyond the 25 user ceiling?
With the previous versions of Small Business Server ( SBS 2011 Essentials and SBS 2011 Standard),...
Date: 11/15/2012
MEET THE PFE OPERATIONS TEAM!
WHAT IS PFE: OPERATIONS (OPS)? Premier Field Engineers (PFE): Operations (OPS) focuses on the the...
Date: 11/13/2012
Windows Server posters now available on Windows Store
Here is a really nice Windows 8 App developed by our “Poster guy”. The team that designs...
Date: 11/07/2012
The Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit (MAPS) v8 Beta is out
The Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit (MAPS) v8 Beta is out. The nice thing about this...
Date: 11/07/2012
Community Night – November 2012
The November community night will take place on the 13th of November at the Microsoft Campus in...
Date: 11/06/2012
You’re running out of excuses to not try Microsoft Windows Azure
This week I would again like to highlight a news article on Windows Azure in order to emphasize the...
Date: 11/05/2012
Migrate virtual machines from a VMware environment to Hyper-V in Windows Server 2012 using a free, simple, stand-alone tool
In case you haven’t seen this yet, Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter Solution Accelerator...
Date: 10/23/2012
IT Camps – Windows 8 & System Center 2012
We have recently announced our next wave of IT Camps in Johannesburg, Durban and Cape Town, with the...
Date: 10/15/2012
Windows Server 2012 Essentials released to manufacturing, available for evaluation today!
I am happy to announce that Windows Server 2012 Essentials has been released to manufacturing, and...
Date: 10/10/2012
Windows Server 2012 Licensing – Part 2
This is a follow up on the licensing changes to Windows Server 2012. I mentioned we now have 4...
Date: 10/09/2012
Community Night – October 2012
The October community night will take place on the 9th of October at the Microsoft Campus in...
Date: 10/02/2012
Windows Server 2012 Licensing – Part 1
I thought I take some time and demystify some of the licensing changes as well as edition changes...
Date: 10/01/2012
Download Windows Server 2012 Essentials Release Candidate
Windows Server 2012 Essentials (formerly known as Windows Small Business Server Essentials) is ideal...
Date: 09/20/2012
Microsoft Azure Tops Cloud Developer Platform Survey
This week I just wanted to highlight this article from InformationWeek discussing the value of Azure...
Date: 09/18/2012
Community Night – September 2012
UPDATED POST Attached in the .ZIP file are the data sheets for the products that will be...
Date: 08/28/2012
Reminder: Register now for the Windows Server 2012 Launch Event with Prime Circle
All the details have been finalised and we are all systems go for the launch of Windows Server 2012...
Date: 08/22/2012
Windows Server 2012 Now Available in the Windows Azure Virtual Machine Gallery
Slight deviation this week from the usual series on Azure features as I wanted to share some new...
Date: 08/20/2012
Last round of Private Cloud IT Camps
Following the last six months of Private Cloud IT Camps, focussed on Windows Server 2008 R2 &...
Date: 08/16/2012
Running Linux on Windows Azure
I’m quite excited at the Linux love coming from Windows Azure. It's not only cool, but makes a whole...
Date: 08/16/2012
Windows Server 2012 Event on the 11th of September
As promised I would like to update you on a wave of Windows Server 2012 activities that we are...
Date: 08/14/2012
Introduction to Windows Azure - Running SQL Server in a Windows Azure Virtual Machine
Again continuing on the series "An introduction to Windo?s Azure" first delivered in this blog, I...
Date: 08/05/2012
Windows Server 2012 released to manufacturing!
Windows Server 2012 reached RTM (released to manufacturer) milestone on the 1st of August 2012. We...
Date: 08/03/2012
Introduction to Windows Azure - IaaS Virtual Network
Continuing on with the series "Introduction to Windows Azure" after my initial blog summarising the...
Date: 07/16/2012